ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,468, issued on June 3, was assigned to Wistron NeWeb Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Communication apparatus and bracket device thereof" was invented by Lan-Chun Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Hung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Han Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Chieh Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus and a bracket device thereof are provided. The bracket device includes a base, a rotary shaft, a connecting member, and an elastic member. The base includes a bottom portion, a connecting portion, and a base engaging portion. The rotary shaft is rotatably disposed in the connecting portion and includes a b...